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It’s getting worse with each hour after Dave’s post. Last night former Vice President Dick Cheney elided the distinction between valuable intelligence that came from detainees and valuable intelligence that came from enhanced interrogation techniques. He did so for a simple reason: he said publicly, for months, that he was “a strong proponent of our [...]

It’s been one year since then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey proposed that Congress pass legislation declaring a new, expanded war with al-Qaeda and the Taliban — thereby granting the president the authority to detain indefinitely members of those groups anywhere in the world.

The Republican Party is hurting for foreign policy and national security standard-bearers. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the GOP’s flagging Senate recruitment effort, is hurting for a measure of relevance. Cornyn’s scheduled speech to the American Enterprise Institute next Thursday, entitled “No Time To Cash In A Peace Dividend,” is kismet unseen since Frank [...]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) just gave an address on “generational theft” at the Heritage Foundation and semi-endorsed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan for purchasing toxic assets from financial institutions. “It’s progress,” McCain said, generating a few sighs in the packed room. He opposes any more TARP money going out without more oversight, but wants to [...]

Despite the administration’s focus on environmental issues, polls show that fewer Americans are worried about global warming than in recent years. Experts say the struggling economy is responsible.

The economic downturn has meant cutting back one prestige product and trimming some minor costs and low-level staff. Several long-time scholars have left for more complicated reasons.

I just talked to Joshua Muravchik, a former American Enterprise Institute scholar who was fired last year in what Jacob Heilbrunn described as a purge of neoconservatives. Muravchik wanted to correct the record on this.
“It was not a purge of neoconservatives,” he said. “It was more mundane and grotesque than that. It was part of [...]